(*Note: Timetable for Destruction or a chronological checklist of the Western
expansion of the European on Turtle Island. "Trail of the Iron Plow".)

"Native Americans fought valiantly against the Europeans and Euro-Americans
who invaded their homelands. The following chronology lists major wars
and campaigns fought by Native Peoples in the present day United States
from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries."

1636-1638 Pequot War, Connecticut Valley
1675-1676 King Philip's War, Wampanoags and Narragansetts in
Southern New England
1675-l676 War with Susquehannocks in Maryland, Bacon's Rebellion
1711-1713 Tuscarora War, North Carolina
1715-1716 Yamassee War, Solith Carolina
1754-1763 French and Indian War, Iroquois and Algonquian
1774 War with Shawnees in Ohio Valley, also called
Lord Dunmore's War
1774-1784 American Revolutionary War period
1779 War with Six Nations (Iroquois) in Wyoming Valley,
Pennsylvania
1790-1795 War with Mingo, Miami, Wyandot, Delaware, Potawatomi,
Shawnee, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians of
"Old Northwest," also known as Little Turtle's War
1811-1813 War with Shawnee, Potawatomi, Winnebago, Chippewa, and
Wyandot Indians in Indiana
1813 Peoria Indian War in Illinois
1813-1814 Creek Indian War in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and
Tennessee
1817-1818 First Seminole Indian War in Georgia and Florida
1823 Campaign against Arikara Indians, upper Missouri
River
1827 War with Winnebagos in Wisconsin, also called
La Fevre Indian War
1832 Black Hawk's War (Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois
and Wisconsin
1834 Expedition against Pawnees in Indian Territory
(Oklahoma)
1835-1842 Second Seminole War in Florida, Georgia and Alabama
1837 War with Osage Indians in Missouri
1847-l850 War with Cayuse Indians in Oregon
1850-1851 Mariposa War with Miwoks and Yokuts in California
1851-1852 Yuma and Mohave uprisings in California and Arizona
1854 Campaign against Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico
1855-1856 War with Takelma and Tututni Indians in Oregon,
also called Rogue River War
1855-1856 War with Yakima, Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Cayuse
Indians in Washington Territory
1855-1858 Third Seminole War in Florida
1858 War with Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Palouse, Yakima, and
Northern Paiute Indians in Washington Territory
1860 War with Paiute Indians in Nevada, also known as Pyramid
Lake War
1861-1886 Campaign against Apaches in New Mexico and Arizona
1862-1863 War with Dakotas in Minnesota and Dakota territory
1863 War with Shoshone Indians in Utah and Idaho
1863-1866 War against Navajos in Arizona and New Mexico
1864-1865 War with Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado and
Kansas
l865 War with Northern plains Indians, known as the Powder
River Expedition
1866-1868 War with Northern Paiutes in Oregon, Idaho, and
California, also known as Snake War
1866-1868 War with Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians in
Wyoming and Montana, aiso known as Red Cloud's
War for Bozeman Trail
1868-1869 War with Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, Kiowa, and Comanche
Indians on southern and northern plains
1872-1873 War with Modocs in Oregon and California
1874-1875 Campaign against Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche
Indians in Indian Territory, also known as the
Red River War
1876-1877 War with Lakota, Cheyennc, and Arapaho Indians in South
Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, also known as the
Black Hills War
1876-1879 War with Northern Cheyenne Indians in Indian Territory,
Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming,Montana and Dakota Territory
1877 War with Nez Perce Indians in Idaho
1878 War with Bannock, Northern Paiute, and Cayuse Indians in
Idaho and Washington Territory
1879 War with Shoshone and Bannock Indians in Idaho, also
known as Sheepeater War
1879 Campaign against Ute Indians in Colorado and Utah

Arlene Hirschfelder is the author of award-winning
non-fiction books, as well as curricula, magazine
articles, and bibliographies concerning Native
American Indians.
Books by Arlene Hirschfelder

Martha Kreipe De Montano is a co-author
of
Coyote in Love With a Star: Tales of the
People (Tales of the People Series) and is a
member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi.